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There is no withdrawal with Marijuana (unless you smoke it with tobacco). It's not physically addicting. Now people say "well but it's mentally addicting". Well

by Kenji 12y ago

There is no withdrawal with Marijuana (unless you smoke it with tobacco). It's not physically addicting. Now people say "well but it's mentally addicting". Well so is reading a good book. I don't want to make Marijuana appear completely safe (it's definitely not), but addiction is not one of the resulting problems.

Alex3917 12y ago
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/kicking-pot-habit-lead-withdrawal/story?id=17333197&singlePage=true http://abcnews.go.com/Health/kicking-pot-habit-lead-withdraw... The withdrawal symptoms aren't especially serious in the grand scheme of things, but they're still unpleasant enough to discourage people from getting stuck in that 5 - 20x per week range.
- Zigurd 12y ago
  With first "offenders" being "diverted" to "treatment" there is all kinds of quackery going on in the "treatment" business, ranging from true believers in reefer madness to profiteers, to nudge-and-wink "treatment" that is just barely serious enough to keep people from going to jail instead. With all the perverse incentives in play, I'd sooner trust the TSA's numbers for how many terrorists there are with long fingernails.
NWDrew72 12y ago
There are many more attendees of M.A. meetings than there are of people in recovery, trying to quit reading because it's had life-altering effects on their minds. "Addiction isn't a problem" is the biggest myth perpetuated in the smoking community. I'm not trying to make pot out to be any more or less monstrous than it is, but to claim that addiction isn't something that happens is to hide one's head in the sand.
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- chimeracoder 12y ago
  > There are many more attendees of M.A. meetings than there are of people in recovery A lot of people are forced to (or "elect" to) mandatory drug treatment/counseling as an alternative to harsher sentencing for first-time marijuana offenses. Success rates are obviously low for these, for the same reasons that requiring all college students who ever drink alcohol to attend AA meetings would have low "success" rates. You can't assume all people who attend drug treatment actually have a drug problem.

by Kenji 12y ago

Alex3917 12y ago

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/kicking-pot-habit-lead-withdrawal/story?id=17333197&singlePage=true http://abcnews.go.com/Health/kicking-pot-habit-lead-withdraw... The withdrawal symptoms aren't especially serious in the grand scheme of things, but they're still unpleasant enough to discourage people from getting stuck in that 5 - 20x per week range.

Zigurd 12y ago
With first "offenders" being "diverted" to "treatment" there is all kinds of quackery going on in the "treatment" business, ranging from true believers in reefer madness to profiteers, to nudge-and-wink "treatment" that is just barely serious enough to keep people from going to jail instead. With all the perverse incentives in play, I'd sooner trust the TSA's numbers for how many terrorists there are with long fingernails.

NWDrew72 12y ago

There are many more attendees of M.A. meetings than there are of people in recovery, trying to quit reading because it's had life-altering effects on their minds. "Addiction isn't a problem" is the biggest myth perpetuated in the smoking community. I'm not trying to make pot out to be any more or less monstrous than it is, but to claim that addiction isn't something that happens is to hide one's head in the sand.

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chimeracoder 12y ago
> There are many more attendees of M.A. meetings than there are of people in recovery A lot of people are forced to (or "elect" to) mandatory drug treatment/counseling as an alternative to harsher sentencing for first-time marijuana offenses. Success rates are obviously low for these, for the same reasons that requiring all college students who ever drink alcohol to attend AA meetings would have low "success" rates. You can't assume all people who attend drug treatment actually have a drug problem.